Suppose I have two web resources, say,
1. http://vedabase.net/sb/3/5/en
2. http://vedabase.net/sb/3/5/5/en
Now if I go to the 1st one IE 7.0 shows me the second one is also visited.
This is really strange!
Similarly if I choose to go first to
1. http://vedabase.net/sb/3/11/en
then the link 3.11.11 i.e. http://vedabase.net/sb/3/11/11/en is shown to
have been visited, which is wrong again!
Regards,
Soumya Dutta
SDET,
Dynamics NAV, Denmark
Microsoft Business Solutions ApS.
Email: soudutta@microsoft.com
Phone: +45 29 22 93 48.
Robert Aldwinckle - 23 Jun 2007 20:43 GMT
> Suppose I have two web resources, say,
> 1. http://vedabase.net/sb/3/5/en
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> then the link 3.11.11 i.e. http://vedabase.net/sb/3/11/11/en is shown to
> have been visited, which is wrong again!
Does the site have a favicon?
Perhaps it's the access of the site's favicon that is being recorded?
E.g. if you trace the opening of both pages you might see this file
being opened by both:
http://vedabase.net/favicon.ico
I don't think you could even avoid it by trying to direct your page's
favicon to a different server because IE7 seems to try opening
that URL unconditionally.
Unfortunately I don't know if it is possible to disable that feature.
I would try using ProcMon (e.g. both RegMon and FileMon)
to see if there are any undocumented registry values which
are being tested before the favicon is read.
Note that this is not the only place where implementation affects a user's
statistics. For example look at your Favorites. Even in a cmd window
its Last Accessed timestamp doesn't reflect what you might prefer to see:
<cmds>
cd /d %USERPROFILE%\Favorites
dir/ta/od/p
</cmds>
I.e., rather than seeing the last access timestamp for each of my Favorites
I'm seeing evidence of some implementation quirk that has caused
all my Favorites to be "accessed" at the same time. Again, I suspect
it could turn out to be the new favicon implementation which is doing it.
E.g. in order to show the Favorites bar or the Favorites menu with the right
icon IE may be opening each *.URL file and checking for IconFile= value.
The process of doing that would be what would be setting the "last accessed"
timestamp of the *.URL (uselessly) to the time that the menu was generated.
Etc.
HTH
Robert Aldwinckle
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